" The oxen drew the sleigh along very easily.

Although it was the third week in April, the snow was still several feet deep, and only thoroughly trained snow horses could have taken the sleighs along, while around the Yellowstone Falls it was possible to move only on snowshoes.

We paid off the Indians, and got some sleighs and sleighed the stuff down the hill.

It was written by the keeper of a public house, and read thus: "'Mr. P.Sir, Mr. John Cotton has left your sleigh and harness here, and you can have them by calling for them.

Yours, etc., JN NN.' "He returned home with the letter, and started for L; went there the same day, some forty miles; found sleigh and harness safe, with no encumbrance.

We loaded up the sleighs with some of our stuff, about two hundred and twenty-five pounds each, and started across the lakes.

I will take Parks to drive the sleigh, if I may, though.

I was considered too young to participate in any of the joint spelling matches, and my heart was heavy within me every time I saw a great four-horse sleigh loaded with joyful boys and girls on their way to one of the great contests.

It was moonlight, and as we passed the sleighs of the rest of the party, exchanging greetings, we grew very merry.

From subsequent examination of the air-hole and the sleigh, I concluded that we must have jumped from the widely extended outriggers, which were intended to guard against an accidental capsize, which had a span of ten or twelve feet, and which rested on the broken ice around the margin of the hole in such a way as to prevent the sleigh from becoming completely submerged.

"Uncle Lawrence has promised me the sleigh and I am going to take them to the Park.

Jonas then pulled the sleigh out of the road, so that it should not be in the way, if any body should come along with any other team; then he bade Oliver good-by, and went on alone.

McLeod and his chums purchased sleighs, on which they loaded their goods and hauled for five miles.

"Get me out of this; it will be several minutes before they can reach the sleigh.

We got up together, he and I, and we righted the sleigh and set it upon the road again.

They searched the sleigh and shook out the robe and blanket, finding only a pair of warm bricks.

In front of the store stood the delivery sleigh, receiving its load of parcels, which were thrown in with an air of unconcern by a blocky young man with bare red hands.

The lighter man when he turns out must drop waist-deep and haul his unwilling beast into the drift, leaving Providence to steady the sleigh.

"I am very sorry," she said quietly, when she had reached the spotless rooms where Gretchen made a home for her crippled brother, "my cousin had made arrangements to use the sleigh this afternoon, so we could not have our drive.

Clarissa was seated first, and well wrapped in the bearskin robes which adorned the sleigh, and then Betty tripped lightly down to have her little feet bestowed in a capacious foot-muff, as she carefully tucked her new gown around her and sat beside Clarissa.

He said no one wanted the sleigh this afternoon.

It is the mark of inexperience in this section of the country to confound a sleigh which you use for riding with the sledge that is devoted to heavy work; and it is, I believe, a still greater sign of worthlessness to think that oxen are driven, as they are in most places, by scientific twisting of the tail.

I fancy "sleigh" is entirely an American expression.

"Fetch the sleigh at once, Pompey.

One of our number left to guard the sleigh, luckily had it ready, in we jumped and drove for our lives, pursued by invectives too horrible to mention.